Systemtray benchmarks

[Rob Scheepmaker]

On Wednesday 01 April 2009 11:09:52 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 April 2009, Rob Scheepmaker wrote:
> > On Tuesday 31 March 2009 23:04:45 Marco Martin wrote:
> > > these are some benchmark (probably not realy accurate) should give a
> > > really gross idea..
> > > i measured the time elased to convert to pass 1000 icons 32x32 argb32
> >
> > I'm interested: could you also run this benchmark for 96x96 icons, which
> > is often used for the icon in notification icons? Currently it also uses
> > png's to transfer this data, but it wouldn't surprise me if with those
> > bigger icons png's are faster.
>
> here we go:
> png:
> 8.97
> 8.96
> 8.92
> 8.76
> 9
> 8.86
> 9.03
> 9.07
> 8.77
> 9.19
> average
> 8.95
>
> raw
> 2.868
> 2.698
> 2.821
> 2.915
> 2.877
> 2.816
> 2.819
> 2.685
> 2.790
> 2.783
> average
> 2.807
>
> in this case the difference is so embrassing that i wonder if there is
> something wrong but yeah, it seems to justify using raw :p

Ok, thanks for running this benchmark: indeed dbus seems a lot faster then I 
expected it to be. I'd better also move the notification's image data to raw 
format.